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  • When Did Rome Really Fall?

    When Did Rome Really Fall?0

    The belief that America is in decline has led to many comparisons between our time and the fall of Rome. A current bestseller—The Benedict Option—makes the case that Christians today must recover and preserve Western tradition much like their predecessors did in the early centuries of the Middle Ages. The date most commonly referenced for

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  • When Democrats Were Opposed to a Centralized, Bureaucratic Education System

    When Democrats Were Opposed to a Centralized, Bureaucratic Education System1

    Today’s Democratic Party in America is considered the foremost advocate of a centralized, bureaucratic, and high-spending public education system. But in 19th-century Massachusetts, where our current public education system originated, the opposite was the case. It was the Democratic Party that was the major opponent of the spread of the government’s tentacles over education. This

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  • When Conventional Medicine Fails—Then What?

    When Conventional Medicine Fails—Then What?10

    We live in an unprecedented time in history. Never before has healthcare separated botanical medicine (using herbs to treat disease and illness) so strikingly from the conventional medicine of the day. But why has botanical medicine become something people turn to only when conventional medicine has failed them? From what I can tell, botanical medicine

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  • When Compassion Becomes Coercion

    When Compassion Becomes Coercion5

    The corruption of compassion. It begins with identity groups making appeals to compassion, then progresses to demands for preferential treatment. It ends with the injustice of coerced compassion in the form of special rights, entitlements, and demands for everyone else to promote and endorse the lifestyles and causes of those groups. A recent case in

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  • When Communists Abolished the Weekend

    When Communists Abolished the Weekend0

    Anti-capitalists on both left and right tell us that “capitalism” is destroying the weekend. The conservatives insist we need laws to punish people who try to sell things on Sunday. Leftists insist “unbridled capitalism” is destroying the weekend, which “lets us cultivate the seeds of civil society…” But it’s not capitalism that’s doing this dirty work. The decline of

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  • When Censorship’s the Game, Despotism Is the Goal

    When Censorship’s the Game, Despotism Is the Goal0

    We’re only a few months beyond the turn of the calendar and already I have a candidate for the word of the year: Censorship. Examples are proliferating at such a fast rate that it seems like a game of whac-a-mole just to keep up with all of them. A few of the most recent include:

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